Waft me some soft and cooling breeze
- DMI number:
- 17
- First Line:
- Waft me some soft and cooling breeze
- Last Line:
- And warble through the vocal grove
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Quatrain abab and Song
- Themes:
- Retirement
- Composer:
- Henry Carey
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Author:
- Samuel Croxall
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Croxall (1721): 33-35.
- Author:
- Stephen Duck
- Confidence:
- Speculation (10%)
- Comments:
- Poem falsely attributed to Duck in e.g. Gentleman's Magazine 1731.
- Title:
- A Miscellaneous Collection of Poems, Songs and Epigrams. By several Hands (vol. 2) [T106190] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp. 174-176
- Poem Title:
- The Midsummer-Wish.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Choice [?not Suarez?] [T59141] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.2-3
- Poem Title:
- Song II.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Comic Miscellany. Vol. I. [ESTC N51175]
- Page No(s):
- p.53
- Poem Title:
- Song 81. The Midsummer Wish.
- Attribution:
- By the Author of the Fair Circassian.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Lovers Cabinet [ESTC T114089]
- Page No(s):
- pp.45-46
- Poem Title:
- The Midsummer Wish...Written when the Author was at Eton School.
- Attribution:
- By the same Author.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The New Vocal Miscellany. Containing near 200 Songs [T179110] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.62-63
- Poem Title:
- Song 83. Midsummer Wish.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The pleasures of coition ... with some other pieces [2nd ed] [N20196] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- pp.44-46
- Poem Title:
- The Midsummer-Wish.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The pleasures of coition ... with some other pieces [N11942]
- Page No(s):
- pp.44-46
- Poem Title:
- The Midsummer-Wish.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The sports of the muses. Or a minute's mirth for any hour of the day [vol I] [T85787] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.53
- Poem Title:
- Song 81. The Midsummer Wish.
- Attribution:
- By the Author of the Fair Circassian.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Windsor Medley [17 titles] [N25098]
- Page No(s):
- pp.20-21
- Poem Title:
- The Midsummer Wish.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- Title:
- The Merry Musician, or Pills to Purge Melancholly reviv'd
- Page No(s):
- p.79
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Carey
- Attributed To:
- Henry Carey
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